Exclusive | Learjet misses Florida mobile homes by mere feet as 600 residents forced out of park strewn with body parts

Two mobile homes in a Palm Beach County trailer park came within feet of being obliterated when a private jet crashed into the street outside on Sunday.The homes survived.

Their neighbors still can’t go home.The Learjet 60, carrying nine people from Austin to the Bahamas, tore into Military Trail near Cresthaven Boulevard in Greenacres shortly before 1 p.m., gouging a crater into the pavement and torching the roadway.Everyone on board was killed.Next door sits the Green Acres mobile home community at 3033 South Military Trail, where a pair of units closest to the impact zone, Lots 3 and 5, stand just steps from the blast.

Neither was struck head-on.“None of the homes were directly impacted other than debris,” Palm Beach County Commissioner Joel Flores, whose District 3 includes the park, told The Post, likening it to a “miracle” that no one else was impacted.Flores walked the scene himself and saw wreckage piled on the roofs of the nearest trailers.“I was on the site, and all I could see was debris on them.I don’t know if anything penetrated the structure itself, but there was debris there on the rooftops,” he said.The jet struck nothing but asphalt and sidewalk, he added, with no cars passing at the moment of impact.

One driver who had just cleared the area walked away with deployed airbags and minor treatment.Anthony Blackmon, who lives roughly 500 feet from the crash site, told NBC Miami that debris slammed into his home.The near miss did little for the park’s residents, who were cleared out wholesale on Sunday and bused to a shelter at the Greenacres Community Center.“We estimate that it’s anywhere between 400 to 600 individuals, we don’t have a precise number,” Flores said.The American Red Cross set up cots and blankets, and the county trucked in portable showers.

By Monday, Flores said, “there’s approximately 40 that are remaining,” with most evacuees bunking with friends or family.The holdup is grim.Investigators are combi...